For shadow mapping, I drew the shadows on the person to get the pose roughly down. It helped me map out the details as well as give a rough form of the character. With a few measuring techniques it also gave a well-proportioned form as well. I also made it so that one of the Read More…

here I shade the negative space around the pose of a person of reference. I used a line of action as a reference to capture a relatively accurate proportioned version of the person in the positive space. the negative space draws helped me understand the position of the body using the shapes of the negative Read More…

For this practice, I use images from articles in Grantham journal to drawing the line of action of people posing for a different photo in the articles. The goal was to be able to get the poses down using the line of action to quickly distinguish the position of their stance. Then I drew shapes Read More…

here I took a reference image of a pose from the Quickpose website and did a long pose drawing of the reference provided. the goal was to accurately get proportions down and start to be able to more freely e able to correctly get the proportions people down when drawing characters and so forth. I Read More…

Here I decide on developing my understanding of developing and drawing heads. I understand that a lot of the shape and understanding of the head comes from the skull, so I put it into practice on learning how to draw and develop different parts of the skull. I used different skull references and videos on Read More…

I proceeded to do some gesture drawing off a video of No:424 from Croquis Cafe. My objective was to improve my ability to accurately do gesture drawings. my goal was simply to make sure that I pose and proportion down properly. In this practice I used different techniques to see how they improve the speed Read More…

I did some hand practice exercises. I did 10 min hand drawings of random hands shown in 10-minute intervals using the line-of-action website. The purpose was to give me enough time to accurately get the hand shape and details down accurately and build the hand while having enough restraints to help push myself and improve Read More…